Pockets of militant Jewish resistance surfaced in smaller ghettos across Nazi-occupied central-eastern Europe too. But those stories are not as widely known. Into The Forest tells one of them. Author Rebecca Frankel based the book on a series of in-depth interviews with Tania and Rochel Rabinowitz. Along with their parents, Morris and Miriam, they miraculously escaped the second liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Zhetel in the summer of 1942. Frankel, a D.C.-based journalist and editor, places that genocidal slaughter into a wider historical and geopolitical context.
— NPR.org
Quote: “Jews who survived [in] the forest did so by numbing themselves to the traumas that had forced them there. Now that they were no longer consumed by the all-encompassing daily fight to survive, the sting of loss began to prickle, like a sleeping limb unfolding, coming awake with full sensation.”
— Rebecca Frankel, Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
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